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...sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel vat full of the perilous fluid...
Nobody was able to locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...
...unscrupulous finders might pick them up and use them. At last WPTB hit on a system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into a beater vat. When the last coupon had disappeared into the bubbling mass of pulp, the inspectors went home...
...inside men, Canadian authorities charged, were Eddy plant superintendent Howard Lamb and a handful of other employees. They had drilled two holes in the sides of the chute leading to the pulp vat, so that some of the coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...
WPTB, checking up, found that 8,794 coupons for butter, sugar, and meat had been fished out of the vat and later used. How many clean coupons had been lost through the chute holes, WPTB could only guess. How was WPTB destroying used coupons now? Said Enforcement Officer W. F. Spence: "We dispose of them -period...